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This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by Jaissica: 04.09.2011 12:42.

Vs that villain you value raise preflop. You are in front of 48% of his range

As played of course you ignore the 4 cent bet. Don't slowplay hands that can be cracked! By calling you have given QT or T8 a free card to crack you for your entire stack, because you aren't easily folding a set. In fact protection becomes more important for made moderate monsters (such as sets) because we struggle to fold to flushes / straights.

Raise the flop to 30 cents and see what happens.

As played you make basically the same mistake on the turn. A min raise of a non-bet is a nothing line.

As played on the river - T8 got there, and you let it get there for 16 cents with a likely win of your entire stack. You were just darn lucky he had 77 instead.

You should only even think about slow playing the mortal nuts (best possible hand on the flop, but can be beaten on the turn by obvious draws) when you can put the villain on a very narrow range and safely give away free cards. If you were heads up against a TAG preflop raiser here you might consider giving away a free card as there is no way he has a straight draw, but even then you risk loosing value against QQ-AA. If bad turns and rivers come, never mind that you could lose (he lucks out a set over set or a backdoor straight) - some cards will scare both you and the villain and stop you getting all-in.

When you flop the mortal nuts, 9 times out of 10 you should bet-raise-shove. The 10th time you think about it, then bet-raise-shove anyway..

Of course if you flop the immortal nuts (such as quads on the flop or top set on bone dry boards) - different story.

Preflop: Against such a raise and also even such an aggressive player you can even consider 3betting it here. Usually such a raise is anyways a sign of a weak hand.

As playedFlop: Why do you slowplay it here? They may easily even be on a draw and you just giving perfect odds. Rather raise it up for protection.

As playedTurn: Way too small raise, you have to consider somehow to get his whole stack, ~$0,40 at least.

As playedRiver: Hehe, only hands you get value from now are some slowplayed sets or at the best 77.
But meanwhile T8 completed. That's why you shouldn't slowplay that long. But of course if we plan to Call then we can as well just ship it while we don't have much behind.